The Apollo landing sites, in particular, are extremely well-documented. The orbiter has not only photographed every single one of the Apollo landing sites, but three of them — Apollo 12, ...

The curious minds at Aperture revisit the dramatic moments and hidden challenges of Apollo 11's historic moon landing.

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface ...

to prepare for the recovery of the Apollo 11 crew and capsule in the Pacific Ocean. “We were there about three or four weeks before the landing, about 1,500 miles south-southwest of Oahu ...

More than 50 years after the Apollo era, major governments and well-funded private companies still struggle with lunar landing missions. Why is landing on the moon so hard in 2024? When you ...

Jeff Hessel worked at Cape Canaveral in the heyday of the U.S. space program. He now lectures about the experience to groups ...

Armstrong flew the lunar module manually, evading boulders in their planned landing location. With the fuel running critically low, Apollo flight director Gene Kranz, back in Mission Control ...

The Orlando Sentinel's front page from July 21, 1969, with news of the history Apollo 11 moon landing. (Sentinel archives) Aldrin followed Armstrong outside on the moon, uttering “Magnificent ...

to meeting with our two families and celebrating — as we are at this 55 th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. I am lucky beyond words. And lastly, when you look up at the moon at night what ...

But the Apollo 17 mission, launched in 1972 ... when the Chandrayaan landing site reenters sunlight. “I’m hoping that with the Artemis program, seismometers will continue to be included ...

He notes that the American flag is distinctively powerful and seems to be present in the imagery of almost every key event in American history, from Apollo moon landings to firefighters raising ...